63 thoughts on “De Thursday Papers”

  2. Catherine costelloe

    Leo Varadkar held a private party in the States and one of the invitees goes to the press over comments he made? How unkind and rather sneaky. After all Leo was buying dinner , a rotten way to treat a host.

      1. Catherine costelloe

        No, I wasn’t sarcastic. It was a conversation at a private dinner party . In a subsequent interview Mr Varadkar stated an innocent priest, named and shamed as fathering a child in Africa proven to be fake news was also discussed but this is not even mentioned. We can all disagree with an opinion but no reason to castigate another for their view.

  3. ReproBertie

    The British Taoiseach is dreaming if she thinks the EU will accept the UK collecting EU taxes post-Sasamach. They rejected such a plan already as completely unworkable.

  4. martco

    nice n all as she is that Staffie (presumably under the very capable control of a four year old Summer Kavenagh there) is supposed to be wearing a muzzle when out enjoying the sun in Stephens Green

    1. Starina

      staffies are like butter. I’m more concerned with the shoddy clipping of her collar. Wouldn’t take much to undo it.

    2. Janet, I ate my Avatar

      RSPCA chief vet Mark Evans said: “Staffies have had a terrible press, but this is not of their own making–in fact they’re wonderful dogs. If people think that Staffies have problems, they’re looking at the wrong end of the dog lead! When well cared for and properly trained they can make brilliant companions. Our experience suggests that problems occur when bad owners exploit the Staffie’s desire to please by training them to show aggression.”

      1. Martco

        yeah & that’s more where I’m coming from…I’ve noticed an uplift in stupid ownership recently

  5. SOQ

    Another never agent poisoning? WTF is going on over there? Is this some sort of Brexit chess game?

      1. Andyourpointiswhatexactly?

        YOUR nerves? I’m just imagining that dog turning around and chewing that little girl’s face off. Though apparently those fellers are nice doggies when trained. The “when trained” bit makes me even more “ME NERVES!” though.
        I’m rambling. It’s the clouds. They’ve made me skittish.

        1. Janet, I ate my Avatar

          staffies such good family dogs they used to be called the nanny dog, it’s other dogs they can be aggressive with when not with a dominant master and socialised properly that the problems start

          1. Janet, I ate my Avatar

            I just reread that ramble
            also blaming the weird yokes in the sky
            all the moaners will be happy

          2. Andyourpointiswhatexactly?

            I’m going to have a glass of wine with lunch.
            Wot larks we’ll have this afternoon, Pip. Wot larks.

      1. Nigel

        But Trump supporters use fake news to describe news they just don’t like so not a useful term except for identifying news Trump and Putin supporters don’t like.

          2. Nigel

            Panto crowd: OHHHHHHHH yes you are!

            Clampers an’ jusayinlike in a tree
            S-U-P-P-O-R-T-I-N-G
            Trump..

          7. jusayinlike

            That’s it Nigel, cling on to your Trump angle it’s all you have you muppet

          8. Nigel

            Trump is the serving president of the Unites States of America and a prominent figure in many international situations that are going on right now this is like saying ‘keep clinging to the cervical smear check scandal angle it’s all you have you muppet’ or keep clinging to the World Cup angle it’s all you have you muppet’ or ‘keep clinging to the ongoing heatwave and drought it’s all you have you muppet.’

          10. Nigel

            ‘Homelessness crisis obsessed muppet triggered.’
            ‘Hosepipe ban obsessed muppet triggered.’
            ‘Michael Flatley vanity project film obsessed muppet triggered.’
            ‘Thai kids trapped in cave obsessed muppet riggered.’

            Current events, dear boy. Current events.

    1. SOQ

      If this turns out to be stuff just floating around the area there will be the mother of all panics, not to mention the embarrassment of creating an international incident last time around.

  8. Junkface

    I think now would be a good time for every country going through heatwaves and droughts to invest in massive water desalination plants. We are surrounded by massive oceans. It makes sense if we can convert salted sea water into drinking water. Why is this not being discussed? Climate change means that we will get longer droughts in Spring and Summer in the northern hemisphere.

    2. Nigel

      It takes so bloody long to get moving on anything. It’s taken decades to ramp up development of wind and solar power tech. We should have been all-in years ago. Solar panels and windmills and water harvesting systems on every new-build house or apartments. Arrrgh.

    3. The Old Boy

      “This year, I invested in desalination plants. They’ve been going up the whole month of June and I’ve got a feeling they’re going to peak right around September.”

    5. Cian

      Because desalination uses electricity. Lots of electricity.
      It is more environmentally friendly to move water from the Shannon to Dublin than to build a desalination plant and a power plant to run it.

      If it costs 3.5KW per M^3 and you want to produce 330 million litres each day = 330,000 m^3 = 1155 MW – over 24 hrs is 45MWh… so the Poolbeg Incinerator (at 60MWhr) could feed it…

      1. ReproBertie

        That’s not a problem, that’s an opportunity to build a tidal power plant to go along with it.

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